Matthew McDerra wins UKIPT Manchester

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

The latest leg of the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) drew to a close yesterday with Plymouth's Matthew McDerra taking the title.

The 27-year-old worked his way through a final table that included double WSOP bracelet winner JP Kelly and the gloriously named Robert Angood (who lived up to his name with a third place finish for £27,000) to set up what proved to be an epic heads up encounter with Poland's Mateusz Warowiec.

It took six hours of two-handed play for the winner to be decided with almost all the chips going in the middle with McDerra holding a set of fives and Warowiec top pair with a king kicker. The Devonian faded the outs to leave Warowiec crippled and sealed the deal a hand later after hitting a straight.